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CVE-2025-70795

STProcessMonitor.sys — process termination primitive in Safetica driver

Summary

Field Value
Driver STProcessMonitor.sys (Safetica)
Vulnerability Class Process Termination (BYOVD)
Exploited ITW No
Vendor Safetica (DLP solution)

Root Cause

The Safetica process monitor driver exposes an IOCTL that terminates arbitrary processes with no caller validation. Any user-mode process can open the device and kill protected processes including EDR/AV.

Exploitation

The attacker loads the signed Safetica driver and sends process termination IOCTLs to kill security products before deploying payloads.

Exploitation Primitive

Load signed STProcessMonitor.sys → open device handle
  → send process termination IOCTL → kill EDR/AV

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